In April, 244 people were killed, and 280 injured.
In May, 286 people were killed, and 360 were injured.
That’s an average of 260 people killed each month, or over 3,000 each year in a place where because of the road conditions and the traffic congestion, you couldn’t do 100kph if you wanted to. 80kph is a challenge.
By comparison, Australia, where most tourists to Bali come from, has 100kph speed limits, in some places 110kph, and 80kph and 60kph are achieved with ease except at peak hour in the larger towns and cities.
Australia’s population is about 22.6M people. Bali’s is about 4M people.
Australia has about 1M km of roads, with about half of that paved. Bali has about 900 km of roads, with about half of that potholed.
Australia has about 16M vehicles. Bali has about 2.5M vehicles with 1.5M of that being motorcycles.
In Australia the average annual road accident death number is 1,500, and falling, which is half that of Bali, whose annual road toll is rising.
The photos I have used are not your typical scooters doing dangerous manouveres in Bali, but situations where we would have traffic control/management or just simply would not allow it to occur.
